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New comment by kakapo5672 in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

kakapo5672 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:54:27 +0000

Tesla is profitable, as a matter of public record. And SpaceX is, by all accounts, extremely profitable.

New comment by kakapo5672 in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

kakapo5672 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:44:52 +0000

No, the benefits are that something can be mass produced magnitudes faster and easier, which in turn also creates more latitude for creativity and new spaces.

It's a true state-change, which makes the argument pretty compelling IMO.

New comment by kakapo5672 in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"

kakapo5672 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:10:36 +0000

What if the braincell-vibe JS libraries turn out pretty much identical to the legacy human JS libraries, aside from being better-commented. That might lead to an existential crisis for some folks.

New comment by kakapo5672 in "AI doesn't replace white collar work"

kakapo5672 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:05:38 +0000

Exactly.

Clearly, some white-collar jobs will be replaced. Hard to argue against that, given it's already beginning to happen. So the question becomes what is the eventual rate of conversion and what is the subsequent economic impact over time? I don't think anyone has a credible handle on that, except to note that it won't be zero.

New comment by kakapo5672 in "NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays"

kakapo5672 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:44:56 +0000

Columbia. Challenger.

New comment by kakapo5672 in "AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says"

kakapo5672 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:15:22 +0000

Yep, and the same with the internet. During the 1990s and 2000s, people kept wondering why the internet wasn't showing up in productivity numbers. Many asked if the internet was therefore just a fad or bubble. Same as some now do with AI.

It takes time for technology to show measurable impact in enormous economies. No reason why AI will be any different.

New comment by kakapo5672 in "Writing code is cheap now"

kakapo5672 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:08:50 +0000

This is actually an old syndrome with technology. It takes a longt ime for the effect to be reliably measured. Famously, it took many years for the internet itself to show up in significant productivity gains (if the internet is actually useful why don't the numbers show that? - a common comment in the 1990s and 2000s). So it seems to me we're just the usual dynamic here. Productivity in trillion-dollar economies do not turn on a dime

New comment by kakapo5672 in "Advice, not control: the role of Remote Assistance in Waymo's operations"

kakapo5672 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:51:27 +0000

I've got people in my social network who firmly believe that every car is, in fact, "driven by Indonesians". Apparently a widespread belief.

I've pointed out that these vehicles are quickly become more prevalent, here and (especially) in China. To which the counter is that there plenty of Indonesians to go around.

New comment by kakapo5672 in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

kakapo5672 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:28:12 +0000

My goodness. Please introduce me to this "plenty of people". I'm in the field, and none of them work with me.

But I can tell you that statistics and parametrized functions have absolutely nothing to do with it. You're way out of your depth my friend.

New comment by kakapo5672 in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

kakapo5672 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:28:48 +0000

Same demographic, same experience. AI has been incredibly liberating for me. I get all sorts of things done now that before were previosly impossible for all practical purposes. Among other things, it cuts through the noise of all the layers of detail, and allows me to focus on ideas, design, and just getting stuff built asap.

I also don't get all the hand-wringing. AI is an amazing tool. Use it and be happy.

Even less do I get all the cope about it not being effective, or even useless at some level. When I read posts such as that, it feels like a different planet. Just not my experience at all.

New comment by kakapo5672 in "How AI labs are solving the power problem"

kakapo5672 — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 02:18:53 +0000

Adding to their sins, many of those airports are in "historically black neighborhoods", you know!

New comment by kakapo5672 in "2025: The Year in LLMs"

kakapo5672 — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 02:11:51 +0000

Whenever someone tells me that AI is worthless, does nothing, scam/slop etc, I ask them about their own AI usage, and their general knowledge about what's going on.

Invariably they've never used AI, or at most very rarely. (If they used AI beyond that, this would be admission that it was useful at some level).

Therefore it's reasonable to assume that you are in that boat. Now that might not be true in your case, who knows, but it's definitely true on average.

New comment by kakapo5672 in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

kakapo5672 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:07:03 +0000

You should let Google know, given their business is really humming nowadays. Along with their stock price.

New comment by kakapo5672 in "Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind”"

kakapo5672 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:52 +0000

Recently I needed to summarize about a thousand lengthy documents, and then translate those summaries into Mandarin.

I spent about a minute composing the prompt for this task, and then went for a cup of coffee. When I got back the task was done. I spot-checked the summaries and they were excellent.

I thought this was amazing and magical at the time. Am I wrong? Or is it simply the AI making me think this result was amazing and magical?

New comment by kakapo5672 in "Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind”"

kakapo5672 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 23:49:24 +0000

There's a financial AI bubble for sure - that's pretty much a mainstream opinion nowadays. But that's an entirely different thing from AI itself bubble-collapsing.

If you truly believe AI is simply going to collapse and disappear, you are deep in some serious cope and are going to be unpleasantly surprised.

New comment by kakapo5672 in "Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind”"

kakapo5672 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 23:31:06 +0000

I see this logical pairing a lot.

1) AI is basically useless, a mere semi-random word generator. 2) And it is so powerful that it is going to hurt (or even destroy) humanity.

This is this is called "having your cake, and letting it eat you too".

New comment by kakapo5672 in "Coarse is better"

kakapo5672 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 15:21:56 +0000

It seems we have found the One True Artist on this thread, the gatekeeper and judge for all that is worthy. Humble obedience in thy presence.

New comment by kakapo5672 in "LLM Year in Review"

kakapo5672 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:37:12 +0000

Very broadly, AI sentence-structure and word choice is recursing back into society, changing how humans use language. The Economist recently had a piece on word usage of British Parliament members. They are adopting words and phrases commonly seen in AI.

We're embarking on a ginormous planetary experiment here.

New comment by kakapo5672 in "LLM Year in Review"

kakapo5672 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:17:01 +0000

For one: modifying existing images in interesting ways ... adding characters, removing elements, altering or enhancing certain features, creating layers, and so on. Things that would take a while on Photoshop, done almost instantly. Really unlocks the imagination.

New comment by kakapo5672 in "Is it a bubble?"

kakapo5672 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 01:35:00 +0000

Bad comparison.

Investment in fusion is huge and rising. ITER's total cost alone will be around $20b. And then there's Commonwealth Fusion, Helion, TAE and about a dozen others. Tens of billions are going into those efforts too.